Last weekend, I attended a weekend intensive with Hajime Kinoko. I have admired Kinoko's speedy tying, efficiency in rope handling, and creativity for years. The opportunity to learn from him was very exciting for me, as well as being somewhat nerve-wracking. This was also the first intensive I had attended as a rigger, having previously bottomed at a Kanna workshop and audited at Otonawa. So going in, I had a good bit of imposter syndrome.
Bottoming was the lovely V, who I nearly dropped a few weeks prior but was game to carry on regardless. All weekend she was tough, enduring, positive, and a lot of fun, and I'm really grateful for what I was able to learn thanks to her.
The first day started as, I have learned, all intensives start: the TK, in whatever way is unique to the teacher. I picked up a few tricks, but there weren't any major design departures from what I'm used to. It's a clean tie, with small changes made for efficiency in tying and added structure. He has a greater emphasis on neat-looking ties, which I may start to adopt. I came out of the morning feeling fairly solid about my tying thus far.
After lunch, we learned two hip harnesses, both the one he uses for suspension and another one that is more for play and making butts look good. General consensus: we all like butts; making them look good is definitely a worthy goal. The one he uses for suspensions is tied pretty much exactly the way it looks like it's tied. I quite like it; it's not too fussy while being one of the sturdier Japanese- style hip harnesses I've come across.
In the last few hours, we tied the first suspension of the weekend. Kinoko calls it a "pinwheel;" it's a running man with the back leg rotated and fastened to the side. Kinoko designs his ties to look attractive from all angles, providing interesting shapes or patterns. There are some details in this suspension that I need to remember/nail down, but when Kinoko said, "Good job," I believed him.
We had an hour to spare at the end, and the translator had gone home, so Kinoko did a Yukimura-style tie/scene with L. He explained the reasoning behind the style: that Yukimura was an older man, not able to get up and down a lot, so he tied on the floor with low points, and used rope to move his models around. The tie emphasized exposure of the pussy, with the model's face on the floor and legs tied open.
(I am super into this, and also I want to do it to a guy.)
He demonstrated "punching with rope," and the teasing slowness of some of the style. It was one of the hottest demo scenes I've ever witnessed.
End, break for dinner and some relaxing time before the performances that night.
My general takeaway from his two cyber rope performances:
1. I will never tie that fast. From getting on stage to getting her in the air in a hip harness and TK took less than ten minutes, and that's with some non-tying time at the beginning. Good goddamn.
2. Everything is better if it glows in the dark and lights up.
3. I will never be that cool.
4. Kinoko seems to have a set of 5 or 6 transitions that he rearranges in different orders for his cyber rope performances. None of them are tremendously complicated; he just appears to do them so effortlessly that they seem more technically imposing than they actually are.
5. It's a sequence with a lot of sympathy for the model. The transitions really move the weight around, changing the load from TK to ankles to harness one after another, allowing relief and rest.
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